The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Robbery at the Capital.

--On Tuesday night last the Library at the Capital was entered and the safe there in robbed of about $3,000. A portion of the money belonged to the Library Fund, and the remainder was the individual money of Col. George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. In the same drawer from which this money was abstracted there were some $300 in gold $700 in Virginia Treasury notes, and about $200,000 in registered State bonds, which the thief failed to get. It would seem that the thief possessed some knowledge of the whereabouts of this money, as well as some information in regard to the places where the keys were kept, which were necessary to him to successfully accomplish the robbery. The key of the Library door was hung up in a private class, with door.

This door was cut, the key taken out, and an entrance effected. Once inside the room, the thief broke open the two drawers in Colonel Monford a desk, in one of which the safe key was kept.

It is a little singular that this robbery was effected in the presence, and yet without the knowledge, of the State guard.